Oral Medicine

Oral Medicine is a branch of dentistry that possesses specialized capabilities concerning the comprehensive management of patient health. This includes diagnostic and non-surgical treatment skills for diseases or abnormalities in the oral and perioral regions, encompassing both primary and secondary conditions. Compared to other dental specialties, Oral Medicine plays a unique role as it bridges the fields of medicine and dentistry. Consequently, its scientific foundation is more closely aligned with general medical disciplines. Similarly, its scope and disease cases are often associated with systemic conditions or diseases affecting other parts of the body.

Oral Medicine also demands multidisciplinary competencies to address oral disease cases that, while not numerous in quantity, are highly varied in type and largely constitute complex cases.

With advancements in health science and technology, coupled with the increasing emergence of complex oral disease cases in the community, there is a growing need for dentists with qualifications beyond the undergraduate level.